Destabilisation

BELGRADE - Outgoing Serbian PM Ana Brnabic said on Monday that, as new parliament speaker, she would try to establish dialogue and defuse tensions in society.

By Yannis Magriotis

Our country over the past decades had impressive growth in many sectors and transcended the dark shadows of the pre-WWII and post-Civil War eras.

It became a member of Western European institutions of security and development and it approached many sides of the democratic and developed world.

Interior Minister Marcel Vela said on Monday evening that disinformation published online denying the existence of the novel coronavirus is part of a financed campaign that can lead to economic destabilisation. "The information war, if you will, has several purposes or several substrates. One of them is that of destabilisation, distrust, chaos, and challenging the authorities.

Europe behaves like a victim, which attracts aggressors, antiterrorism expert Hristo Smolenov told FOCUS Radio's Good Morning Bulgaria in relation to frequent terrorist attacks.

The Parliamentary Economic Commission adopted at first reading the budget for 2017, reported BNR.

It is expected that the budget will be reviewed in the plenary hall on Thursday in spite of the resignation of the government.

Businesses are apprehensive about a possible economic destabilisation of the country if the budget is not approved.